The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-11

NHi'histtt itiNhts VIM heu hbtutU pow
erful military spirit entered Heaven, they en-.
tered the celestial army.
The door OF Heaven hardly opens but YOU
heara military demonstration. David cried
out; The chariots of God are twenty thou
sand" Elisha saw the mountains filled with
celestial cavalry, st. John said; ,"rhe
armies which are in heaven followed him on
white horses Now, when those who had
the military spirit ON earth sanctied entered
glory, l suppose they right away enlisted
In some heavenly campaign, they
volunteered right away. There must
needs be in Heaven soldiers with
soldierly spirit, There are grand parade
lays when the King reviews the troops.
There must be armed escort sent out to bring
up from earth to Heaven those who were
more than conquerors, There must be
crusades ever being fitted out for some part
CT Gods dominion-hattles bloodless groan-
luss, painless. Angels of evil to be fought
down and fought back. Other rebellious
worlds to be conquered. Worlds to be put
to the torch. Worlds to be saved Worlds
TO be demolished. Worlds to be sunk.
Worlds TO he hoisted
Beside that In our own world there are bat
Ties for the right and against the wrong where
we must have the heavenly military That
is what keeps us Christian reformers so buoy
ant. SO few good men against SO many bad
men, so few churches against so many grog-
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many polluted printing presses, and yet we
arebuoyant and courageous, because while we
know that the armies OF evil in tho world are
larger in number than the army of the truth,
there are celestial cohorts in tho air fighting
OH our side
have not so much faith in the army on
the ground as have in the army in the air.
., God open our eyes that we may see them
The military spirits that went up from earth
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Joshua, and Caleb, and Gideon, and David,
and Samson, and the hundreds of Christian
warriors who on earth fought with fleshly
| arm, and now having gone up on high are
coming down the hills of Heaven ready to
fight among the nvisibles. Wonder they are
coming, coming Did you not hear them
rs they swept by.
But what are our mathematical friends te
do in the next world! They found their joy
and their delight in mathematics. There was
| more poetry for them in Euclid than in John
Milton. They were as passionately fond of
mathematics as Plato who wrote over his
door: Let no one enter here who is not ac-
quainted with geometry What are they
doing now? They are busy with figures yet.
No place in all the universe like Heaven for
figures, Numbers infinite, distances infinite,
| calculations infinite. The didatic DR.. Dick
said he really thought that the redeemed in
Heaven spent some of their time with the
higher branches OF mathematics.
Some of our transferred and transported
metaphy sicians- what are they doing now!
Studying the human mind only under bettey
circumstances than they used to study it.
They used to study the mind sheathed in the
dull human body. Now the spirit unsheathed
how they are studying the sword outside
the scabbard. Have you any doubt about
what Sir William Hamilton is doing in
Heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is do
in Hanvnn n,- tl,l ypuI ttt1a an ri
who had passion for metaphysics sanctified
by the grace of God! No difficulty in guess
| ing. Metaphysics, glorious metaphysics, ever
lasting metaphysics
What are our departed Christian friend.
who are explorers doing now! Exploring
yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescope at the same
time. A continent at glance A world in
a second. A planetary system in day.
Christian John Franklin no more in disabled
"Erebus" pushing toward the North Pole,
Christian De Long no more trying to free
blockaded Jeanette" from the ice, Christian
| Livingstone no more amid African malaras
| trying to make revelation of dark con-
| tinent; but all of them in the twinkling of an
| eye taking in that which was mapproachable.
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenStock The
| coral depths of the ocean explored without a
diving bell. The mountains unbarred and
opened without Sir Humphrey Davys safety
| lamp.
What are our departed friends who found
their chief Joy in study doing now? Studying
| yet, but instead of few thousand volumes
on few shelves, all the volumes ofthe uni
verse open before them-geologic, ornithoo-
| gle, conchologic, botanic, astronomic philo-
sophie. No more need of Leyden- jars, or
yoltaic piles, or electric batteries, standing
as they do face to face with the facts Of
the universe
| What are the historians doing nowl Study.
Ing history yet, but not the history of few
centuries of our planet only but the history
of the eternties-whole milleniums before
Xenophon or Herodotus, or Moses, or Adam
was born. History of one world, history OF
all worlds.
What are our departed astronomers doingi
Studying astronomy yet but not through the
dull lens of earthly observatory, but with
one stroke ct wing going right out to Jupiter
and Mars and Mercury and Saturn and Orion
and the Pleiades-overtaking and passing
swiftest comet in their fight. Herschel died
a Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Herschel is doingl Isaac Newton died
what Isaac Newton is doingf Joseph Henry
died Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Joseph Henry is doingl They were in
discussion, all these astronomers OF earth,
about what the aurora borealis was, and
none of them could guess. They know now
they have been out there to see for them
selves.
What are our departed Christian chemists
doinga Following out their own science,
following out and following out forever.
Since they died they have solved ten thou
sand questions which once puzzled the earthly
laboratory. They stand on the other side of
the thin wall of electricity, the wall that
world, the thin wall Of electricity, so thin the
wall that ever and anon it seems to be almos,
broken through--broken through from oul
side by telephone and Geographic apparatus
broken through from the other side by
strange influences which men in their ignor
ance call spirtualistic manifestations. AL
that matter cleared Agassz standing
amid his student explorers down in Brazi
coming across some great novelty in tn,
rocks, taking off his hat and saying: Gen
tlemen, let us pray; we must have divine il
Elimination; we want wisdom from til,
Creator to study these rocks; He made them
let us pray" Agassiz going right on with
his studies forever and forever.
But what are the men of the law, who il
this world found their chief joy in the lega
PROFESSIONALS are they doing now! Study
ing law in a universe where everything is
controlled by law, from fight of humminy
bird to flight of world-aw, not dry and hard
and dredging, but righteous and magnificent
law before which man and cherub and seraph
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chain of law long enough to wind around the
immensities and infinity and eternity Chain
of law. What place to study law, where all
the links of the chain are in the hand
What are our departed Christian friend.
who in this world had their joy in the heal
ing art, doing now! Busy at their old bust.
ness. No sickness in heaven, but plenty OF
sickness on earth, plenty of wounds in the diff
ferent parts of Gods dominion to be healed
and to he medicated. You cannot understand
why that patient got well after all the skill
full doctors of New York and Brooklyn had
said he must die. Perhaps Abercombie
touched hm--Abercombie who, after many
years doctoring the bodies and the souls Of
people in Scotland went up to God in 1874.
Perhaps Abercombie touched him.
| should not wonder if my old friend, DR.
John Brown, who died in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Brown, the author of ''Rab and His Friends
John Brown, who was as humble a Christian
as he was skilful physician and world
renowned author-l should not wonder If he
had been back again and again to see some of
his old patients. Those who had their ioy in
healing the sickness and the woes of earth.
gone up to Heaven, are come forth again for
benignant medicament
But what are our friends who found tbei,
chief joy in conversation and in sociality